India, March 5 -- After India's 4-wicket win in the Champions Trophy semi-finals against Australia on Tuesday, head coach Gautam Gambhir came down hard on critics who say his team has benefitted from undue advantage by being able to play the entire tournament based at one venue in Dubai.

"What undue advantage? We haven't practised here (stadium) even for a day. We practice in the ICC academy. And the conditions there and here are 180 degrees different," he told reporters. "If you look at the wickets there and here, there's a huge difference. Some people are just perpetual cribbers, man. I feel that there's nothing like that. We didn't have any undue advantage."

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